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During the Bleeding Kansas era and continuing until the end of the Civil War, James Henry Lane was both a Kansas hero and the most hated man in Missouri. Lane came to Kansas shortly after the territory was opened by the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1954. Settling in the abolitionist town of Lawrence, Lane soon […]
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This month’s post is going to be a review of the movie “Killers of the Flower Moon”. The movie, which is currently in theaters, is directed by Martin Scorsese and stars several A-list actors including Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert DeNiro. The movie is based on a true story and a book of the same title,
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As I promised in the October post, this post returns us back to a popular Missouri resident, Jesse James. This month I took a trip up I-29 to St. Joseph Missouri where I visited the house where Jesse James was murdered by Bob Ford. I’ve mentioned before that this topic is personal to me because
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This month I took a short, hour and half drive out to Wamego, Kansas. Wamego is a town of 4,000 about a hour northwest of Topeka. The town is the home of the Wizard of Oz Museum and has totally embraced the notion that they are center of the Wizard of Oz universe. But first
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If you have been following me for a while, you know that I like to publish posts about historical television and movies and I watch. This post will be another of these as I review the movie Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy and several other A list actors including Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, and Robert Downy
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If you don’t know me personally or haven’t followed me long enough to figure this out, I am a God-fearing, flag waving, proud to be an American man. When the national anthem is playing, I will be standing at attention with my hand over my heart to honor the greatest country on earth. It is
I have a bit of personal attachment to the Jesse James story because the house we built in Richmond, Missouri backed up to the cemetery where Robert (Bob) Ford was buried. Ford was the man who shot Jesse James in St Joseph. His tombstone reads, Robert Ford, “The man who shot Jesse James”. While in
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Remembering the 4th grade A significant portion of my readers are, or were, Missouri residents. I think that most of these people remember the 4th grade Missouri History unit. Part of that unit was usually a field trip to Fort Osage. Even though we have all been there, myself included, I bet only a few
Our last stop on the Oklahoma tour is Fort Gibson. I found Fort Gibson very interesting, and I encourage you to visit if you are in the area. The historic Fort Gibson is located in the town of Fort Gibson, which is just east of Muskogee, over the Arkansas River. Muskogee is 50 miles southeast
The Battle of Honey Springs, sometimes called the Affair at Elk Creek, occurred on July 17, 1863, at the Honey Springs Depot which was a storage facility for the Confederate Army in the area at the time. The depot was a stagecoach stop before the war and had good sources of water for travelers along
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